House of Lords
Most of the bills passed by the Lower House required the consent of the House of Lords, except for the government budget and military recruitment. The membership of the Herrenhaus was attained by inheritance, by appointment or by an ecclesiastical role in the Catholic Church. The upper house comprised:
- the full-aged archdukes (Erzherzöge) of the ruling Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty;
- the Archbishops of Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Olomouc (Olmütz), Lviv (Lemberg), Zadar (Zara) and Gorizia (Görz);
the Bishops of Seckau, Lavant, Wrocław (Breslau), Trento (Trient), Brixen, Trieste (Triest), Ljubljana (Laibach), Hradec Králové (Königgrätz), Kraków (Krakau), Przemyśl, and Transylvania (Siebenbürgen);
the Greek Catholic Archbishops of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia and the Archeparch of Lviv;
the Archbishop of the Armenian Catholic Church at Lviv; - Austrian nobles appointed as hereditary peers by the Emperor of Austria;
- Austrian citizens appointed as life peers.
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